How good is a sub ?100 3d printer ?

[curious aardvark]

Well she needs a name, after pulling this off last night:

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Not a blob, or sign of any threads or stringing anywhere.
That's a level bed !
size looks good - I'll try one this afternoon. If you hadn't already worked out they are for releasing trolleys without using a pound coin.
Printed these at 100 - for selling custom ones to people I'll probably drop it to 75.
They all released really easily too.

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So she needs a name and a nameplate. Hmmm, have to think about this :-)
ctc 13 pro b - doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.

The white filament I've been using is Y&S pla.
See, they DID put a manufacturers sticker on the reel :-)

I mean i have no idea where I gt it from, but at least i know what it is.

Currently testing flexibles. Just printed at 40mm/s with ome flexible pla.
Currently doing some flexismart black rubber at 30mm/s - I can just about use it on the delta at 10mm/s - so this is pretty good.

I'm going to try filaflex next - had the roll for years, nothing has - so far - beenable to print with it. It's like wet spaghetti, the floppiest filament I've ever come across.

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One of the things I like about flexible filaments is that you don't need to heat the bed and you can run the first layer at 100%. Which, given how much slower the speed is than normal pla - makes up somewhat for the low print speed.

Well hot diggity - this extruder eats fialflex like a hyena with a dead zebra :-)

Just need to get my settings right and I reckon she'll print with anything !

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think I've finally got the settings for filaflex down.
They say: 210-230c
I say: 255 minimum :-)

add in 120% extrusion and you can print it at 30mm/s
Have to admit I am impressed with how a couple bits of ptfe tubing turn what is a really basic, no spring tension extruder into the best one in my workshop.